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This is a gorgeous pink moss atmospheric scent. A small dab goes a long way. I absolutely love it.

Wooooo this is an orange colored scent! Deep orange. I love it. The red musk and tangerine are incredible. I've been wearing this during sacral chakra work.

I immediately bought two bottles as I am a complete sucker for all leaf scents. I don't smell anything resembling leather, which is a relief, however there seemed to be an unlisted dusty clove component to these leaves that makes me sad. I might have still considered buying A bottle if clove had been a listed note, but never would have bought two. Leather would have been preferable. I keep trying it in hopes that the clove will soften and age out instead of amping up. Fingers crossed because the leaves are good. 

After writing this review, I decided to test it again. The perceived dusty clove is much less prominent than it was even a week ago (I ordered it when it was offered and have been testing it since it arrived weeks ago) and it is much more of the leaf note I have come to expect (and love). So, yay! Aging well! ?

Another love. I adore mulberries and it is so rare to see them in a perfume oil. Hard to describe but mulberries are really deep and sweet (yet bitter?) in a way that is very different from any other berry. I love all leaf smells. I wasn't sure I liked this at first, but I kept returning to my wrists and was enjoying what I was smelling. It grew on me. Almost like a poem that you know you're supposed to like but then you finally get it and it all makes sense. Bittersweet mulberries, yellowing mulberry leaves and yes, just a bit of lemon to round it out and give it a bit of contrast. 

Yes. Just yes. This is what I had been hoping for with Nothing Gold Can Stay back in August 2010. While NGCS was a nice scent, there was always something in there that just didn't fit. The notes are all discernable and I am in love with this oil. I have been wearing this almost non stop since it arrived and it has made my holiday season much more bearable. It smells how the painting looks. It smells like actual living maple leaves, red orange yellow but still on the tree - the best leaf smell there is. No sharp green, no mouldering brown...

I haven't layered with October yet, but it is high on my list. ?

Thank you!

I have been wearing this a lot since it arrived and I love it. I was wary of the cheesecake but, it's just not there. The chocolate covered cherry is epic, and dries down to a musky version of its initial self, which I love. It smells exceptionally good on sweatshirt sleeves! The chocolate seems like a nice cookie type chocolate to me, a bit dusty, which reminds me of meringue cookies from my childhood. The initial phase lasts about an hour on me and the afterglow lasts another three or so. I love this.

Oh. Oh oh. This was supposed to glorious. 

It smells like cumin. 

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I will absolutely update this if I am proven wrong after it settles for a week or two. 

I haven't retested this yet, but I wanted to say something about this. I think it's horrible to trick folks into thinking they are getting an amazing perfume and then add unlisted cumin to it. Maybe that's the point of the Krampus lashes? Ha ha, gotcha! We put cumin in your chocolate! Well, I'm not amused. The cumin ruined this and I think it was very bad form to not list it in the notes.

Updated 12/16:

It has been two weeks since I tested this so I figured I would try again. The cumin got stronger. This time I couldn't stand to wait for the drydown and had to use a tea tree pad to scrub it off. What happened with this one? It is so extremely off-putting. I would love to read other reviews of this monstrosity. Now I'm afrad of anything new with chocolate, cinnamon, nutmeg and black musk because this oil has traumatized me. ?

Well, I didn't expect or want to be first, and I rarely write reviews anymore, but here goes...

Must love black musk.

Seriously. There is only a hint of rose so far and the black currant is missing. The black musk is the same as By day she turned herself into a cat (you know which one) and is awesome. I am curious what other folks will say about this one. Also curious to see how it will age. So...black velvet=black musk ?

I recently acquired a bottle of this and wanted write something since there is only one review.

I love this. I guess I love anything with rose and frankincense together but this is lovely. The tobacco isn't the chewy sort and isn't overpowering the rose and frankincense. Scentwise this is very similar to the 'monastary' scents. I wore this when I wanted to feel surrounded by my ancestors and, although the full description was omitted from the review post here, I feel like it helped me in that endeavor. I will treasure my bottle. Not sure why there aren't more reviews.

The new incarnation of Monk doesn't smell like my older imps at all. ? Not an aging issue, completely different scent. That's the last time I will jump at a restock.

This is green and somewhat sharp, the original was all creamy saffron and sandalwood with a hint of ti and honey.

This smelled so scary in the bottle, I've been working up the courage to test it.

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It smelled awful for a bit, then it reminded me of two very different oils in different ways: Totality and Gaueko. I love them both. I get the frankincense from Totality and the lavender from Gaueko but I like Totality and Gaueko much better than Traum. Dried down to Gaueko + frankincense on me, which is fine but not what I had expected. Nothing special here.

Estamets nailed it: peppery butter.

I was looking forward to a good frankincense but I think the skin musk is doing something bizarre with it. The vanilla is nice but the sweetness is strange and works against the frankinmusk. It smells nice, I guess? Just disjointed. I've had this for quite a while and finally felt it had rested enough to try. If you're looking for a true frankincense experience, look elsewhere. 

I bought this last year because it sounded amazing despite being pretty out of character for me. I loved it from first sniff. Wearing it today, I am enjoying the moonflower and sweet pea melding with the salty sea spray and blue musk. I get why folks smell 'laundry' but it, thankfully, doesn't come across that way for me. Lovely. 

I've been wearing and loving this oil since it came out and am wearing it today in honor of Luna being in Cancer. I am surprised at the lack of reviews for the Sphere + Sundry perfume oils here! This is one of my favorite oils to wear to sleep while the Moon is in Cancer. I know I can use it anytime (and I do) but it feels special to look forward to this treat a few days each moonth.

This oil works wonderfully for amplifying anything and everything I've wanted to accomplish for divination, inner work, shadow work and magical workings.

The scent is ridiculous- it's a creamy pineapple but not coconut (which I hate smelling almost as much as smelling pineapple and coconut together!) despite coconut being listed in the ingredients and I absolutely love it. It smells like nothing else I have and is just lovely. 

As for scent, the rose, neroli and lemon verbena are what I smell most. I'm wearing this in honor of Venus being in Pisces and honestly, I've been in need of extra comfort this year as it has been especially difficult so far. It smells spicy, floral and comforting and I love knowing there's lotus in here. I only put some on about 30 minutes ago, but I've worn it before and I know it works for its intended purpose. 

This is another scent based on art that shouldn't be picked apart. I've been wearing this since December and love it. The 'leather' was so strong I could smell it with the cap on. !!  As soon as I was brave enough to test it, that 'leather' smoothed out and was enveloped in the dark coolness of the rest of the perfume. I love the first review of this scent, and agree with most of what was written. Honestly, 'moonmilk' had my attention and, although I never smell the notes, I feel the cave. This is intensely beautiful. I wanted to review scents still fresh in my memory before I forget to review them at all, and might wear this one later today.

Lavender, champaca, labdanum and patchouli with a hint of opoponax. Very nice. Similar to The School of Silence. Different enough to have both.

Lavender and champaca loveliness. This is very similar to Oblivion Railroad, to me, but softer and without labdanum and patchouli.

After reading these reviews, I don't have much to add, but wanted to write my thoughts. 

This perfume oil is just so lovely. Yes, I love the listed notes. Do I get them? Nope. Not at all. Do I care? Not a bit. Why? Because it smells like the painting looks. This isn't amber and tea, it's 'amber light' and a 'tea stained sky'. And yes, it absolutely lives up to the description if you're not trying to isolate notes. I did that at first and it was confusing, but I loved the scent so much that it didn't matter. If the art appeals to you- don't look at the notes- just enjoy the scent inspired by the art. Lovely.

I've been wearing this since it arrived in August 2022. This is one of my favorite perfumes. I reach for it most when I feel like curling up with a book. The scent is overwhelming in the best possible way. I want this to overwhelm me with its scent! I can smell the listed notes but refuse to try to isolate them because I don't want to analyze this, I just want to enjoy it. Looking at the notes, I expected a powdery element but this is all velvet. So much love for this strong, comforting scent.

This is so awesome. The first disappointed review convinced me I needed a bottle, and I'm thrilled to have one. This doesn't smell like butterscotch. This smells like Ghost Milk with a hint of toffee and vanilla sparkles. I love it. It would be cool to smell the rose, but I don't. Maybe it will develop later. Wearing this brings an immediate, long lasting smile to my face and brightens my day. Also, the scent lasts forever on me- lingering into 12 hour longevity. 

This is beautiful. I can smell each of the listed notes and they are blended beautifully. It goes on fairly strong, mostly plum and opium tar, and softens a bit when I start to smell the lavender. Glad to have a bottle.

Eta 17 July '24 I'm not sure why, but I can barely smell it on my skin after putting a decent amount on. I have to put my wrist against my nose and huff to even smell it and it still smells watered down. It makes me sad. This seems to be a recurring issue with many of the newer oils and I wonder what has changed. Bpal oils rarely ever had this issue on me but now it's more miss than hit. It's not my skin chemistry either, I have many perfume oils from Bpal and other companies that are strong on my skin.

I wrote this review under the original and copied and pasted it here.

My bottles arrived two days ago. The original became my favorite, tied with The Mysterious Warning, from the first moment I tried it, fresh out of the mail, in 2013. I was so excited to be able to wear it again! 

This isn't it. ? This is nice, but only vaguely similar to the original because of the notes. The original slaps me in the face with patchouli and opium tar, some lavender and black orchid and dried down to a strong, beautifully blended version of those notes: it was a virtuoso. This? The notes are there, but in a different formula. The patchouli is barely there, there's a hint of lavender and maybe orchid if I try really hard to find it. The dry down is a hint of patchouli with a really light, but beautiful opium tar note. I would love any combination of these notes (and do), but for the folks who remember, loved and were hoping for the original: this is not even close to the same. I will compare this to the disappointment of the Dorian reformulation- it's very nice, but a completely different scent.

Eta April 15- there's a mildly honeyed soapy quality to this now. I don't like where this is going. Nothing like the original and yes, I remember what it smelled like the day I first put it on, and many wears after that. The aging has nothing to do with the differences here, this is just a completely different scent.

I was so excited to be able to wear a perfume oil version of this!!! The white ginger note was so fantastic and made this, which was originally a hair gloss, what it was. It made me nostalgiac for the days I wore Bvlgari Blv and the amazing White Tea and Ginger from BBW...and I enjoyed the scent of that hair gloss sooo much but the glosses were just too heavy for my hair.

When this first arrived two days ago, I could barely smell anything in the bottle. I put some on about an hour ago and there is barely any scent to this. ?! What scent there is reminds me of a dirty diaper. I don't understand. There's no ginger. None. I wonder if my bottle is a dud or if this is the intended scent? I am curious to read other reviews as they come in. In any case, my bottle smells nothing like the original scent, and honestly that's disappointing enough without the diaper hint. Good grief. I will hold onto this for a bit, but I have no hope that this will suddenly turn into something it's not. 

Eta: looks like I'm not alone. What a shame they couldn't create a good perfume oil version of that stunning hair gloss.

My bottles arrived two days ago. The original became my favorite, tied with The Mysterious Warning, from the first moment I tried it, fresh out of the mail, in 2013. I was so excited to be able to wear it again! 

This isn't it. ? This is really really nice, but only vaguely similar to the original because of the notes. The original slaps me in the face with patchouli and opium tar, some lavender and black orchid and dried down to a strong, beautifully blended version of those notes: it was a virtuoso. This? The notes are there, but in a different formula. The patchouli is barely there, there's a hint of lavender and maybe orchid if I try really hard to find it. The dry down is a hint of patchouli with a really light, but beautiful opium tar note. I would love any combination of these notes (and do), but for the folks who remember, loved and were hoping for the original: this is not even close to the same. I will compare this to the disappointment of the Dorian reformulation- it's very nice, but a completely different scent.